Chongzhen Wiretapping System

Chapter 935 Differences in Portugal
However, the Portuguese still have considerable strength against these indigenous countries.After all, their knowledge of artillery and firearms is far better than that of indigenous countries.The only shortcoming is that they have too few troops.

But now with the support of the Ming army, it just made up for their shortcomings.At this time, it was more like a fox pretending to be a tiger. Relying on the tiger of Daming behind him, the Portuguese army as the forward was so high-spirited, and directly pushed across. The target was the capital of the Yariba Dynasty.

In the course of this attack, it soon became apparent that the Portuguese and Ming treated overseas territories differently.

The strategy of the Portuguese was to accept all the nobles and nobles of the Aliba Dynasty who could surrender, and use them to rule the place, but they only ruled those nobles and nobles who surrendered.

In this way, let alone, under the deterrence of the Ming army, most of the nobles and nobles of the Aliba dynasty chose to surrender to the Portuguese and pay taxes.For them, whether it is handed over to the Portuguese or the previous Aliba Dynasty, it is the same.

In this way, the whole process of attacking the Aliba Dynasty was extremely easy and progressed extremely fast.Even later, the nobles from all over the country who took refuge in the Portuguese brought more and more troops, and they did not need the help of the Ming army, and they already had the advantage.

But Phillips knew very well that these local nobles surrendered only because of the force of the Ming army. At least for now, they couldn't really be trusted. In the end, they had to rely on the presence of the Ming army to be at ease.

Based on this factor, Phillips did not dare to monopolize the seizures of the Portuguese and the offerings of the nobles. They must be distributed to the Ming army, even if the Ming army just followed behind and did not fight.

In this way, it took two months to destroy the Aliba dynasty.Subsequently, the Portuguese became the masters of this land and began to rule the place through nobles from all over the place.

Relatively speaking, compared with before, the local nobles are not much different, the only difference is that their master has changed.

For this way of ruling, you can spend less effort and quickly achieve the goal of changing the dynasty.However, the foundation is not stable.If the situation changes in the future, the Portuguese rule will soon be overthrown.

However, the Ming army's way of killing the original vested interests and distributing the obtained benefits to those who have nothing and the poor is tantamount to binding them with Daming with benefits.

Although in the early days, there will be strong resistance from nobles and nobles everywhere, but as long as it can be implemented, it will surely be long-term stability.At least Ming's intentions can be fully realized in the newly occupied land, so that the purpose of transforming the local area can be achieved.

After helping his allies achieve their goals, Yan Yingyuan sent his troops westward and began to attack the Ottoman Empire.

The reason why they don't rest is actually that during the previous period, for the Ming army, they came for travel, so there is no need to rest and recuperate.

The Ottoman land on the Arabian Peninsula is too far away from their capital, Istanbul.Therefore, at this time, such a distant province was actually half out of the control of the Ottoman court.

However, when various places were attacked by the Ming army and could not resist at all, they thought of the Ottoman court again.As a result, they sent people to their emperor as quickly as possible to ask for reinforcements.

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At about this time, the Ming army led by Emperor Chongzhen had captured the most important towns in Persia.The vanguard, the Cossack corps of Racine, reached the Ottoman frontier.

At this time, the Ottomans had already reacted. At least on the surface, they had gathered heavy troops and were ready to fight.

However, the Cossacks were originally sturdy, and now they were members of the Ming army, having experienced countless victories, and they were irrigated with victories that would destroy the ancients, so they were even more sturdy.The Ottoman Empire was a defeated army, and its 30 to [-] troops were wiped out by the Ming army. Under such circumstances, it would be a shame to still be afraid of the Ottomans!
Therefore, although Emperor Chongzhen's will was not obtained to invade Ottoman territory, small groups of people often entered Ottoman territory to provoke.For a while, they were running rampant like crabs, but the Ottomans did not dare to go to war easily.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen was still in Zhennan City. His primary goal was not to attack the Ottoman Empire, but to stabilize the territory of Persia. If this land was settled, he would inevitably send troops to sweep away the places where the soldiers had not reached before, and establish the Great Ming Dynasty. Only true governing order will do.

However, although the original Persian Empire had a very large territory, if it is really necessary to take care of it all, it will definitely not be completed in a short time.As Ahmed analyzed, the Ming army will be a problem in terms of military strength and logistics.

But Emperor Chongzhen did not intend to take care of all the corners and corners from the beginning, but had a focus.

Most of the territory of Persia is a plateau, not to mention the lack of resources, the transportation is not good, and the population is sparse.After being tossed by Abbas II for so long, the population is even smaller.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen's focus was to quickly rebuild those places with rich products first, and other places would be slowly managed after the new governor arrived.Anyway, what matters to this land is not how much tax you want to collect in these places where birds don't poop, but the "gold" underground.

In addition, Emperor Chongzhen was actually a little worried.The reason is simple, there are too many territories occupied at once, and there is a shortage of people!

A new town, no matter what, must be guarded by some troops from Ming Dynasty, it must be divided.Although locals can be recruited to become auxiliary soldiers of the main force to supplement the shortage of troops.But no matter what, this situation will weaken the combat effectiveness of the main force of the Ming army.

In addition, the new Zhancheng can be controlled by the military in a short period of time, but if it takes a long time, it will inevitably be governed by civilian officials.And the civil officials for this governance must be officials from the Ming Dynasty.No, those officials are still on the way with their governor!
If the local affairs are not handed over and the main force of the Ming army is freed up, there will be no way to continue to the next step.After all, the next Ottoman Empire is a country several times larger than the Persian Empire, and it is not a small country that can be destroyed easily.

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The situation on the side of the Ming army, although Ahmed has some guesses, but after all, he has lost sight of Persia today. of fear.

Afterwards, the border guard reported back the arrogance of the Ming army, that is, the Cossacks.Judging from this posture, it is uncertain when the Ming army will suddenly launch an attack and break into Ottoman territory.

This made the border guard very anxious and kept asking for help.Because the so-called massing of heavy troops over there is actually just an illusion, just a bluff.The Ottoman army had suffered such heavy losses before, so how could they gather a large number of troops!
To be honest, Ahmed hasn't had a good night's sleep since the last time the border guard said that Persia was going to be wiped out.He was worried that the Ming army would soon attack Ottoman, and he was also worried that someone in the country would use him and his family as a scapegoat.Because of this, his hair didn't know how much gray it was.

The army is not a leek, let alone an elite army.If the Ottoman Empire wants to regain its elite army, it must take a long time.However, the border guards made a big report every ten days and a small report every three days, as if the Ming army could break into Ottoman at any time.

He is like this, and the Ottoman Queen Mother is not much better.She is also worried, the Persian Empire has been destroyed, and the Ming army continues to be arrogant on the border. It is really uncertain when they will attack Ottoman.On Osman's side, however, she was absolutely unable to reassure her, as there was no elite capable of resisting the Ming army appearing.

For this reason, she could only ask Ahmed again, hoping to find peace of mind from Ahmed.

What else can Ahmed say, he can only continue to emphasize his previous remarks, indicating that the army will definitely not attack Ottoman in a short time.He still has time and is stepping up training the army.

After hearing this, the empress dowager of the Ottoman Empire could only do so.

But who knows, later on, in addition to the urgent reports from the guards on the Persian border, the Arabian Peninsula, which was not very familiar with the Ottoman court before, sent people one after another to report urgently, saying that they were attacked by the Ming army and urgently asked for help. military.

Moreover, judging from the urgent report, the Ming army's offensive was very fierce, and they went all the way north along the south coast of the Persian Gulf without any pause.

What they didn't know was that there was something wrong with the emergency report itself. First, the military situation on the battlefield was unclear, and the estimate of the number of Ming troops was inaccurate.During the insurance period, they would always estimate the number of miles; and those nobles had the same mentality in their urgent reports to the Ottoman court.

They didn't expect that this would scare people!
This time, both the Queen Mother and Ahmed were dumbfounded.

Doesn't it mean that the army has too few troops, so it must not be able to take care of it?Then why can the Ming army still divide its troops and is already attacking the provinces of the Ottoman Empire in the Arabian Peninsula?

Now that the Ming army over there has already attacked the Ottoman Empire, will the Ming army on the Persian side be far behind to attack the Ottoman Empire?
Thinking of this, the empress dowager became anxious, and severely reprimanded Ahmed, and must come up with countermeasures.

They didn't know that Yan Yingyuan's order was that the Emperor Chongzhen wanted him to rely on the Persian Gulf first, occupy the better land along the coast first, and finally go straight to Baghdad to capture the most fertile land here.As for the Arabian plateau, deserts and so on, let them go first.Wait until the bustling places are stabilized, and then go to sweep those places.

It was also because of this that the Ming army's offensive was very fierce.Otherwise, as far as Yan Yingyuan is concerned, no matter how many people there are, it is impossible to advance so quickly.After all, the Arabian Peninsula is also very large.

(End of this chapter)